Friday, November 9, 2007

Recreating my WoW skin

I knew there was programs call addons that help you play your game better in WoW. Addons like DPS meter lets you find out how much damage you can deal per second or even Xperl that lets you change your character frame.

But I didn't know addons can change the complete look of your WoW interface like a skin.
After viewing a few screenshots of other players WoW interface, I decided to make my own WoW skin.

IT IS DAMN HARD. But quite fun. How I wish I had a bigger monitor and a more powerful graphic card to achieve cool graphics and interface as the screenshot in the last post.

Here are 3 of the skins I make, please vote.


Number 1:
Number 2:
Number 3:2 seems to be the coolest, because I am fighting a shiny blue dragon, but I didn't like it much cos I had to keep an eye on my skills(so once it refreshes, I can use it immediately), an eye on the enemy health and whether my spells duration have timed out, and an eye on my buffs. This means I need to look at the bottom, Top right and right side of the screen at all time. Very very tiring.
So i designed option 3. Haven't tested it out yet but I made all the important stuff at the bottom of the screen. In this way I only have to watch out for the enemy debuffs which I positioned at the top right hand corner. With the added space, I can insert a DPS/Threat Meter that tells me how much damage and threat I am dealing.

And one more thing, I figure out how to change the fonts from the normal ones to DIABLO STYLED KIND.
So now, u will get to see damage appear like the one in the screenshot below. Cool eh?

Dun forget to vote! :)

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